Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
FROM information received at the Navy
Department. it is believed that the United
States steamer Vandalia has arrived at
Honolulu, or will do SO in few days.
DISPATCHES have been received a. tns
Denartment of State from the United
states Minister to Belgium announcing
that the government of that country has
increased the duty on cattle, cohes ana
meat. and that after January next meat
will not be permitted to enter Belgium
excent in the form Of whole animals and
halves and fore-quarters OF animals, ana
then only when the lungs are attached.
TIE Business Educators Association OF
America opened its ninth annual session
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th. Presi-
dent SadIer delivered the opening ad-
dress. About seventy-five delegates were
present representing most of the promi
nent business colleges Of the country.
TIE Mexican war veterans of Boston
and vicinity held a reunion on the 18th at
Nantasket Beach. There were thirty
four veterans present Officers were
elected and resolution OF thanks to A.
NJ. Kennedy, of Washington, for his eff
forts on behalf Of the Mexican war vet
Grams was adopted. A banquet closed the
reunion.
A WOMAN has been arrested in New
Brunswick charged with numbering
three of her children.
THE Secretary Of State has received,
through the German Minister at Wash
ington, from the Emperor of Germany
check for $1,000 and two gold watches
embellished with the likeness and mono
gram of the Emperor, with request that
the money be divided equally among the
families Of the five members of the life
NJ nor Station
Va, who lost their lives in attempting to
rescue the crew Of the German ship Eliza
beth, on the Sth day Of January last and
that the watches he presented to Frank
Tedford and Joseph E. Etheridge, the
only survivors of the life-saving crew.
Mr.. BLAINE's health is reported to be
very bad in Scotland.
BARON SKILLERE has been released from
the French asylum In which he has been
confined for several months.
ANOTHER revolution is imminent in Bull
garia. The army threatens to proclaim
the deposed Prince Alexander King.
THE Park Hotel at Billings, Mont, was
DESTROYED by fire on the Goth, caused by
the explosion of lamp Loss, 81, 500;
insurance nominal.
THE great fire at the Standard Oil
Works at Cons table Hook, N. j., on the
Goth, was got under control after two
large warehouses, three immense tanks,
four big docks and over TO- 900 barrels OF
oil were destroyed; loss, 81, 600, 600.
reflects of the recent strike on the
Brooklyn Elevated road have all disap-
peared, and trains are running on old
schedule time. OF the seventy m en- who
quit work on an hours notice, sixty
eight, Colonel Martin says, have filed ap-
plications for reinstatement.
BRIGGS SwIFT's old porkhouse in Gin
cinnati, which was recently remodeled
for manufacturing purposes, was burned
on the Goth, involving a loss of $50 OOO.
The fire started in the ce-cream freezer
factory of the Gooch Freezer Company.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD gave a
hearing on the Goth to representatives of
| importers of Sumatra tobacco and OF
growers of domestic leaf tobacco in re
gard to the general question as to the
proper method of determining the du
| table value of Sumatra tobacco.
THE cotton worm is said to be doing
| great damage to the crop in Egypt
| SHERIFF MCNEIL, of Chadron, Neb, or
the Goth, arrested in Omaha young
woman named Maggie Lovletts, on {
charge of being an accomplish in the
murder and robbery of man who lived
in cabin a short distance out o.
| Chadron. The alleged principal in thu
| crime is a man named Thompson.
| Hon. ASA P. GROVER, a relative o
President Cleveland, and in whose honor
the President received his given name
died at Georgetown, KY, on the goth
aged seventy-five years. He was born il
Ontario County, N. Y. and moved t.
Kentucky in 1917. He was me mber o
the Fortieth Congress from the Fiftl
Gouisville) district of Kentucky.
The acting Secretary of the Treasur,
| iron
Captain Sheppard, commanding tn
revenue steamer Rush, dated at Ouna
laska, July 5, confirming the press dis
patches in regard to the seizure of tn
British steam schooner Annie Brown ant
the American schooner Challenge for II
legal sealing.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has sent out cir
cular letters to the steel manufacturer
of the United States, notify ing them tn a
the department has decided to postpon
until September 90 the opening OF pre-
posals for the furnishing of steel cas-
guns for the navy. This action is take
in order to give more time to domestl
manufacturers to consider the matter
Mr.. GERARD B. ALLEN, the ST. Loui
millionaire, died at Richfield Springs, \
Y. on the 21st.
NEWS of bloody battle in the SCUBA
has reached Cairo, Egypt.
CAPTAIN BUNCE, com mander OF tn
United States steamer Atlanta, has ser
a report to the Navy Department in whic
| he speaks of an accident which occurre
| on board the vessel in Gardeners ba
while practicing with the new guns. HI
clips and clip circles did not hold the gun
satisfactorily with a max imum charg
calculated to give projectiles two tho'
, sand feet velocity. The same was tru
Of the six-inch guns.
ELMER E. THOMPSON, of st. Louis. WE
seriously wounded near Fullerton, Net
on the 21st.
THOMAS J. MONARCH, the noted Kel
lucky whisky distiller, died on the 2lst.
, THE people at Catania, Spain, are PAM
} stricken because of the rapid spread
cholera.
, THE Chicago Doodle case jury was cor
| pleted on the 21st and the trial begun.
THE opinion prevails at Vienna tn
Prince Ferdinand will decline the Blu
| garian throne.
THE President refuses to pardon jam
, | D. Fish. the New Y ork bank criminal
In a railroad disaster on the Erie line
New Jersey, on the 21st, eleven Italian /
borers were killed.
, A NEW International canal schem
4 tween Germany and Holland is being q
, veloped at Berlin and Antwerp.
j. PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's Western tri
a it is now said, will include Kansas Ci
o | and other points.
Y PETER BURKHART, a farmer who live
near Peters burg, Ind, killed his wife
the 21st and then ended his own life.
d THE st. Louis grocers had their hearir
/ before the Interstate Commerce Col
It mission at Washington on the 21st-
l. MRS CLEVELAND celebrated her twent
. third birthday on the Dist The event w